The Food (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/775

7.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/775(1) laying down rules for the application of Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the provision of food information to consumers, as regards the rules for indicating the country of origin or place of provenance of the primary ingredient of a food is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 1(2)—

(a) omit “Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 or”;

(b) after “251/2014” insert “or Regulation (EU) No 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks, the use of the names of spirit drinks in the presentation and labelling of other foodstuffs, the protection of geographical indications for spirit drinks, the use of ethyl alcohol and distillates of agricultural origin in alcoholic beverages(2)”.

(3) After Article 1 insert—

“Article 1A Definitions

In this Regulation:

‘country’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean any of the individual constituent nations forming part of the United Kingdom;

‘retained EU law’ has the meaning given in section 6(7) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 but does not include any legislation so far as it extends to Northern Ireland.”.

(4) In Article 2(a)—

(a) in point (ii), for the words from “either” to “countries” substitute “in more than one country”;

(b) in point (iv), for “Member State(s) or third” substitute “the name of the relevant”;

(c) in point (v) omit “Member State or within a third”;

(d) in point (vi), for “Union provisions” substitute “provisions in legislation which form part of retained EU law”.

(5) In Article 4, omit the fourth paragraph.

(1)

OJ No. L131, 29.5.2018, p. 8-11.

(2)

OJ No. L130, 17.5.2019, p. 1-54.